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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Emily O’Conor for her opening statement. I invite Ms Patricia King of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to make her opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms King. The next speaker is Ms Brigid Doherty from Patient Focus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: We will group the questions in batches of three. I ask members to be conscious of time as we have fallen a little behind. The first group of three speakers includes Deputy Louise O'Reilly, Senator Colm Burke and Senator Keith Swanick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank the witness-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: That is fine. Does Mr. Doran wish to make any comments on the questions asked so far?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Doran. I will ask one or two questions before we move on to the next group of speakers. On process and integration, is there a value in integrating primary care and secondary care in a much more active manner? We have a model in Kilkenny where there is a highly developed integration between primary and secondary care which involves the streamlining of the flow of patients both...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: Is there a lack of consistency in planning? Is Dr. O'Conor saying that week one might be completely different to week two in respect of the emphasis in planning?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: Who would like to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: Before we take our final summing up, because the HSE representatives are waiting, perhaps when Mr. Doran is finished responding to the other questions he will comment on accountability and transparency in how our services are managed. Is there a difficulty in finding out who is responsible for making decisions which have knock-on effects on other parts of the service, to their detriment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: We must finish. While I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Doran, could he devote some time to the questions of accountability and transparency? Are there deficiencies in how we view the decisions that are made and see whether they are being made responsibly and are clinically or managerially correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Doran. I might give a final word to Ms Doherty of Patient Focus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Doherty. I will leave the final word to Dr. O'Conor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I thank the witnesses for attending. We have kept them beyond their allotted time. We have also kept the HSE beyond its allotted time. I thank Dr. O'Conor, Ms King and Mr. Doran from the ICTU and Ms O'Connor and Ms Doherty from Patient Focus for their evidence. We will suspend proceedings for a few moments in order to facilitate the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: This is session two of our meeting this afternoon. We are meeting representatives of the Health Service Executive, HSE, in regard to overcrowding in emergency departments. On behalf of the committee, I welcome from the HSE Mr. Liam Woods, national director of the acute hospitals division, Mr. Damien McCallion, HSE national director of the National Ambulance Service and emergency management,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: Mr. Woods might like to answer some of those questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: With regard to hospital emergency department overcrowding, it is a given that every witness who has appeared at this meeting and the meetings on the future of health care accepts there is a bed capacity issue. That cannot be addressed in the immediate term. The bed capacity review will undoubtedly outline that there is a shortage of beds. The number of beds needed may be debatable but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: Will Ms Fitzgerald sent it to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: To take up the point about trying to take the pressure from our hospital system, the GP contract is absolutely essential. If hospital centred care is to be transferred to community centred care, it will most likely be a GP-led primary care service. There is significant potential for the management of chronic illness in primary care if the potential is released, but we have a huge manpower...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I am sorry, as I interrupted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Michael Harty: I will allow Senator Colm Burke to contribute. That will complete the questions from members.